The European Islamophobia Report 2023 found that Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza has functioned as a ‘geopolitical catalyst of anti-Muslim racism in Europe’.
A report on Saturday has revealed that Israel’s ongoing military actions in Gaza have led to a significant increase in Islamophobia across Europe.
The European Islamophobia Report 2023 looked at anti-Muslim sentiment in 28 European countries, finding that the war on the besieged Palestinian enclave had “functioned as a geopolitical catalyst of anti-Muslim racism in Europe”.
That’s a dubious source you got there, totally criticised for anti-islamic approaches.
According to their page:
The Middle East Forum, a think tank founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, promotes American interests in the Middle East and protects Western values from Middle Eastern threats.
they also have an Islamic Watch and and an Israel Victory Project.
In honesty, I don’t know the source, and you’re right, they seem highly politically motivated. But, and that’s still a valid point, it did one thing: Give a reasonable explanation why I couldn’t find the website of the Leopold Weiss Institute. Or does the Leopold Weiss Institute actually exist?
An organization under this name does exist, but seems to not have a website or other public presence. Of course this does raise legitimate questions. However the author of the meforum text even provided the evidence for the existence of a registered organization on his own website.
Quite honestly, “Austrian Institute without a public presence whose main contributor moved back to Turkey” does still smell like a front group to me.
And ftr, none of that means that I think Islamophobia doesn’t exist or hasn’t increased.